can you overtrain..

StartingAnewDay

In the same day?? Like if you did a series of exercises say, before work, weight based, upper body... but you feel energized and your bit of an exercise junky and want to maybe toss a few kettlebells or do somemore exercise later in the day that would probably use some of the same muscles.. would that be considered overtraining as it's within the same 24 hrs?

lizard053

It depends completely upon how hard you train. If you did a really hard workout in the morning, to the point of near failure, I'd say leave off. If it was a really light workout, then go for it.

Lukazetta

You should never overtrain in my opinion.

Overtraining in my opinion reduces your recovery time, your muscles need time to heal/grow until you train that same body part again.

Recovery has to do with age, intensity (weights), diet (you need good macros to heal properly in time).

If your body does not recover before you hit the same muscle groups you will end up losing strength and may even be more prone to injury.

Good luck!

BrianSharpe

You can certainly overdo things in one day but overtaining is usually the cumulative effect of fatigue over a period of time and a result of not taking rest days; effectively your volume of exercise is exceeding your ability to recover. Some of the more common signs of overtraining include elevated resting heart rate, not feeling motivated, persistent muscle aches etc. and you'll usually feel a noticeable decline in performance.

StartingAnewDay

You can certainly overdo things in one day but overtaining is usually the cumulative effect of fatigue over a period of time and a result of not taking rest days; effectively your volume of exercise is exceeding your ability to recover. Some of the more common signs of overtraining include elevated resting heart rate, not feeling motivated, persistent muscle aches etc. and you'll usually feel a noticeable decline in performance.

Good information.. Normally I don't train to failure, but I usually do hi pyramid reps w/ heavier weight.. So I do get some fatigue as in having to pause during a set. I do try to take at least 1 rest day where I do cardio in between. Thereby (my thought) giving 2 day rest if I split the workouts by upper and lower.

The problem is, I like change and so have no real "standard" I prefer full body, but sometimes I end up splitting, pyramiding, NROWL4W, I'm even considering tossing in a 5 x 5 and now I am adding kettlebell, which honestly I consider cardio. I even lift during cardio, holding weighted ball while riding stationary bike above head, curls or triceps while walking on treadmill, carrying weight while doing steps etc. My weights have always overlapped and I'm trying to be more responsible about it.

My goals would be

1. weight loss 2. Strength 3. muscle/cutting/toning in that order...